Today, I was reading Phil Brennan at Newsmax.com and learned that man really has caused global warming. Phil was talking about the manipulation of the temperature data in New Zealand and how the early temperatures were reduced and the more current ones were raised. This caused a false upturn in temperature. But, it was entirely man-made. So, the global warming people are right about one thing. Man is the cause of (the appearance of) global warming.

The global warming believers are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. They are acting as if the climate gate memos were never found. If the memos are mentioned at all, they are dismissed as thefts and not important to the discussion. Since the world does not believe the last round of fantastic forecasts, we are being treated to a new round of even more fantastic forecasts.

The one thing that nobody ever comments on is the fact that the predictions of the global warming alarmists are ALWAYS wrong. Even when they appear right, they are off by a lot. Not one global warming enthusiast predicted the current cooling trend. All of the global warming enthusiasts dismiss this cooling trend as something very temporary. After the cooling period is over the global warming will reappear as if nothing had intervened. At least that is the story being told by the “true believers”. Fortunately, there are not as many of them today as there were a year ago.

Glenn Beck showed a commercial from Europe showing polar bears falling from the sky. That was one of the more disgusting commercials I have ever seen. The connection to 9/11 was pretty great as at first it appeared the polar bears were jumping from the buildings. The thrust of the commercial was to try and persuade people to stop flying. Glenn’s reaction to the commercial was decidedly negative. Mine was also negative. I am sure that other people had a similar reaction. Glenn and I cannot be that much out of touch with reality.

The purpose of the conference in Copenhagen is the transfer of wealth from the rich countries to the poor countries. There is no global warming. Global warming is the biggest scientific hoax since the Piltdown man in the early 20^th century. In the Piltdown man, the evidence was planted. Then when questioned it was discovered that it was the skull of a human and the jaw of an ape. This global warming hoax has many of the same elements. The evidence was not planted, it was falsified. The Piltdown man influenced scientific thought for about 50 years before it became completely debunked. We do not have 50 years to debunk global warming. It needs to occur within the next 12 months.

In a related event, the EPA decided that one of the essential gases on the planet is a pollutant. The EPA ruled yesterday t hat carbon dioxide is a pollutant and can be regulated by the EPA. Carbon dioxide is something all animals breathe out. All plants take in carbon dioxide to produce oxygen and produce our food. That is not something that is a pollutant. A pollutant is something that is bad, not essential for life. But, the EPA is not really interested in saving the planet or reducing pollution. They are involved in the wealth transfer from wealthy Americans to poorer Americans and the transfer of wealth from America to the rest of the world. That is more important than being scientifically accurate. The EPA is showing itself a political organization, not a scientific organization. It had a reputation of stupidity, but it did show some scientific rigor. Now, all pretense of allegiance to science is thrown out the window. All allegiance to the political ends of the socialist Democrat party is paramount. Science can take a back seat to politics.

We need to get back to an administration that respects science. Right now, we have people spouting scientific terms to justify socialist ends. That is not science, it is politics. As a scientist, I am outraged that science has been politically hijacked. There was a time when a scientist making a statement about science could be trusted. Now, you have to look into that person’s politics before you can believe them. That is terrible. Scientists should stick to science. Politicians should stick to politics. If a politician wants to politicize science, then let them do it all alone. As a scientist I will not stand up and back a politician unless his science is sound. Since most politicians do not know the first thing about science, that means if a politician talks about science, don’t believe them.

Our ship of state is headed for parts unknown. We are borrowing money at a rate that is unbelievable. In 2002, our national debt was at $5.98 trillion. Now our national debt is $12 trillion. In one year, it is expected to be at $14 trillion. These numbers are too large for our country to handle. Something has to give. Either we slow down the runaway spending train and restrain spending. Or we continue spending and end up at a location where we do not want to be.

On CNBC a few days ago, there was an expert on by the name of Damon Vickers. He projects that if this rate continues that the dollar will disappear and a new currency will be put in place which will enable a New World Order. This New World Order cannot be good for liberty. It would almost certainly involve some sort of a totalitarian government. That means a loss of freedom. I don’t know how you feel, but that is not good for me or my grandchildren. In my mind, we have to do everything we can to stop this from happening.

There is something we can do about this situation. The first thing is that we can stop spending money like we have lots of money to spend. A warning was issued by China because they questioned the cost of the Obamacare bill being considered in the Senate. Now, I do not want to be told what to do by Communist Chinese, but they have a point. We do not have the money, so why not stop and pay off what we already owe. That would necessarily mean living through a “Great Depression” period in history. Living through a “Great Depression” would not be as bad as my parents and grandparents lived through that time period. They came out of the Great Depression stronger than they went in. I believe that we as Americans would do the same if forced to live through a similar situation. But, come out of it we would.

That is the first thing we could do. Of course, that would put us exactly 180 degrees out of phase with the Obama administration. The Obama administration is committed to weakening the dollar and driving up the national debt. That is not good according to the economist interviewed by CNBC. The interesting thing about the interview by CNBC is that the host of the show did not seem flustered about the information that Mr. Vickers had to say. He just asked about the global currency problem that starts the One World Government. I would have asked questions about what he meant when he mentions what will happen. That would get him to clarify his points for the audience. To me a New World Order is a bad thing.

If we get our financial house in order, we can reclaim our country. Right now, our country is being stolen from us by banking institutions and people bent on destroying our way of life. They want to create a totalitarian government in place of our republic. In my mind, totalitarian governments are not good. People living under a totalitarian government do not have the freedoms guaranteed to us under the Constitution of the United States. I do not want to live under a totalitarian form of government. I like the freedoms guaranteed to every member of the United States of America. I want to continue living under those freedoms. I want those freedoms for my children. I want those freedoms for my grandchildren. If that means I have to live with less to make sure that they have those freedoms, then I will take less.

This boils down to the fact that we do not need the Democrats “Nanny State” ideas. We can do without the “Nanny State” for this generation and for every generation of Americans to come. We are Americans. Americans are great because we are free to succeed and fail. A “Nanny State” tries to prevent anyone from failing. That is where they always fail in a much larger extent than just one person at a time. They do it a country at a time. That is catastrophic for a country. We need to install an individual’s right to fail. That may sound bad, but it is actually good. Without the right to fail, you really do not have the right to succeed. You need to be able to succeed to get ahead in this world.

Americans need to take charge of their own lives and those of their children and grandchildren. They need to throw out anyone who promises to keep them safe from failure. Those are the snake oil salesmen that are getting us into deeper trouble. We need to find the real American leaders that will allow us to succeed or fail. That is the American way.

Last night on the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn had on Lord Moncton and John Bolton to talk about the climate change treaty that Barack Obama might sign in December. That climate change bill sets up a government that has the power to tax every financial transaction at a rate of 2%. It can force countries that have a carbon debt to pay that debt in the form of money to countries that have a positive carbon footprint. According to Lord Moncton, the government set up is the beginnings of a world government. Each country that signs the treaty would have to give up some of its sovereignty so the government could operate without regard to local laws. The possibilities are truly scary.

But, then Lord Moncton said that he could prove that Global Warming was not happening because of carbon dioxide. That immediately got my attention as I am interested in that topic. In the discussion that followed, Lord Moncton showed a chart with 11 graphs from leading scientists around the world (primarily in the US) that believe in global warming. The graphs are depicting what the scientists say is happening to the upper atmosphere. In the upper atmosphere, if global warming is occurring the temperature would have to go down. Each graph by the leading scientists did show that the temperature of the upper atmosphere was going down. But, Lord Moncton said that those graphs were computer projections of what the scientists were expecting to happen, not actual data. Lord Moncton was dismissive of the efforts of the scientists and said they were using Xboxes.

Then, came the moment I have been waiting for since the idea of global warming became a political football. Lord Moncton unveiled a graph that used actual upper atmosphere data over the last 20 years. The data was collected by Richard Lindzen, head of the Climatology Department at MIT, among other scientists. This graph showed that the upper atmosphere was releasing temperature, just like it has always done. The greenhouse gases had no effect on the upper atmosphere. The upper atmosphere was not trapping the heat in. In other words, carbon dioxide and the other greenhouse gases do not cause global warming. If the earth is warming, it is not because of greenhouse gases.

Since we are facing draconian taxes because of global warming in the “Cap and Tax” bill, this information should make those that support the bill look like fools. They would be supporting a tax to stop something that is not happening. Of course everyone knew that all along, but now we have scientific evidence from a leading scientist at a leading university. All the global warming crowd has are computer models that are subject to the bias of the person or people entering the information. Actual data trumps projections any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

This information should mean that any scientist that expects to be taken seriously will have to become a skeptic of global warming. Those scientists that cling to global warming will be doing so out of political loyalty, not scientific evidence. There is no evidence to support global warming and there never has been any evidence. All they have ever had are those computer models. Those computer models have been shown to be wildly inaccurate by this evidence. That would mean that they would have to incorporate this new data into their computer models. If they incorporate this new data into the computer models, it will show that the world is not warming up.

It will take a while for this evidence to make the rounds of scientific communities. As it does so, the call for controls to stop global warming will necessarily cease. That will make some politicians look real bad because they have staked their lives on global warming being true. It will just point out the politicians that are out for personal reasons. Al Gore will be the chief loser in this whole episode. He has staked his entire post-VP career on global warming being true. He even starred in his own movie and won a Nobel Prize for his efforts. Now, everyone will see the truth and maybe someone will have pity on the poor man. He still has his car companies that are raking in the dough, but that is another column.

Last night, I watched the Glenn Beck program at the Fox News website. I was shocked by what I heard. Not so much by the information that he provided. That was information that I either knew or sensed. The shocking thing was the conclusion that Glenn drew from the data available. The other shocking thing about the conclusion was that it made perfect sense.

The conclusion from last night’s show was that we are headed for big trouble. We had a spike in the money supply under Jimmy Carter and had to have 20% interest rates to get rid of that spike. That spike was only a 13% spike. We now have a 120% spike in the money supply. What kind of interest rate would be required to reduce that spike I do not know? What I do know is that whatever interest rate it is, it will shut down the US economy. The 20% interest rates under Carter almost shut down the economy. Anything higher would surely shut down the economy.

What was startling was that this kind of spike has happened in the past. The Weimar Republic of Germany had this same problem. After the huge spike which allowed them to pay the debt, they issued a new currency. This new currency was based on German land, not precious metals such as gold. That meant that the German government owned all the land in Germany at that point. Germans were outraged and rebelled. That helped to propel Hitler into power. Glenn’s conclusion is that this is what is intended for America. That Obama and the Democrats intend to inflate the dollar into a worthless piece of paper. Then, they will issue a new type of money based on American land. That would mean that the American government would have to own all the land at that point. Given America’s love of owning land, there will be a big fight over losing our ownership of land to the government.

Glenn then speculated that with the unrest that would follow such a move, that the government could call in help from governments that have an interest in America. The largest country that meets that qualification is China. If one Chinese soldier so much as touches the ground with his foot, it would mean instant war with the American public. American citizens will not be subjugated by a foreign power, even one invited by our own government. We would fight the Chinese tooth and nail, just like in the movie, “Red Dawn”. I believe that the American Armed Forces would fight a foreign invader, even one invited by our own government.

The other unsaid thing that would have to happen to make Glenn’s scenario work would be for Obama and his cronies to take our guns away. If they tried to take them away directly, there would be heck to pay and it would not happen. They would have to use a stealth method. The stealth method that might work is to tax guns out of the hands of law abiding Americans. Just place a “Gun Safety Tax” on guns, because everyone knows that guns are dangerous. That would make the cost of owning a gun too much for most citizens. Most would be forced to give up their guns or break the law.

Glenn’s time frame for all this to happen is also scary. He suggested a 5-8 year window for all this to take place. That is too close for comfort. My oldest grandchild would be getting to the age where the fighting would take place. I am much too old to be of use in any real fighting situation.

When I became a practicing Christian, I heard stories about the Constitution hanging by a thread and the Christians having to save it. At the time, I dismissed those stories as pure fantasy. I thought that it was impossible for that scenario to happen in my lifetime. Now, I see where this scenario is playing out right in front of my eyes. I am hoping and praying that the members of the Church stand up and take their rightful place as saviors for the Constitution and this country. The problem I see is that I do not see any actions being initiated to thwart the enemies of the Constitution. I just hear talk. Talk is cheap. Action takes real guts and commitment. Do we have the same guts and commitment that our forefathers had in 1776? I hope that we do. I pray that we do. I want to help, but my age and health are going to make it difficult for me to be much help at all. People my children’s age are going to have to be the leaders of this movement. Do they have it in them? Only time will tell if that is the case. I pray for a rebirth of freedom in this country. It is sorely needed. We have too much government interference in our lives. Let’s get back to the ideals of our Founding Fathers. They got it right in 1787. Let’s get it right in 2009 and beyond.

Last night, I listened to the Glenn Beck show on the internet. During one segment, he put the attack on Fox News by the White House in perspective. On his blackboard, Glenn showed all the ways that the Obama White House has tried to limit free speech. The result was a chilling thought of how far we have fallen since January.

On the Mike Gallagher show, I heard another assault on free speech by the White House that Glenn Beck did not cover last night. This is that the United States is now one of the countries supporting the proposal by the Muslim countries on a restriction on free speech because of blasphemy. If this ever gets through and adopted, we will not be able to criticize Muslim terrorists as Muslim terrorists. They would just be terrorists and the Muslim part would have to be left out. That means that the message would be incomplete and the public would be left in the dark as to the truth. But the biggest problem is that the Obama White House even agreed to a restriction on our free speech rights at all. The Constitution is quite clear about the ability of our citizens to free speech. Obama seems to ignore that when it suits him.

We have an attack on our freedoms from many locations. It is difficult to keep up with all the attacks. Sometimes I think that I would like to take a break and let others do the work for me. Then, I realize that it is part of my duty as an American citizen to be informed and to speak out about these issues. Speaking out may have a price some day, but it is a price I am willing to pay. Freedom is important to me and I will defend it to my last breath.

During the period from the late 1940’s to the 1960’s, Ronald Reagan fought for these same values against the communist incursions that were taking place. I am reading a book about how Ronald Reagan won the Cold War against the communists. In the beginning of the book, where I am, it documents these struggles. It also points out that Ronald Reagan felt that we were in a war against the communists that the general public was not aware of. It is much like the war against the Islamo-Fascist’s of today. We are in a war that many in the country deny that we are fighting. As a result, we are in danger of losing our country to the enemy by giving up the ground without a fight. Right now, Barack Obama is surrendering at every opportunity. I hope there is not enough time for him to give everything away before he either gets stopped or replaced.

Freedom of speech is crucial to the proper functioning of our Republican form of government. If there are limits on our freedom of speech or freedom of assembly, we have no chance to stop the enemies of this country from taking over.

Right now, the Congress is trying to take away our property rights as well. When our property rights are gone, the country is gone with it. If this Obamacare bill becomes law, then we have no more private property in this country. That is why the bill has to be stopped. The bill is also a terrible bill that will not solve the problem that it is supposed to solve. It will just destroy what is good and precious.

We are a good people. We try to be kind to those who have less than ourselves. We try to be fair and honest with those that are weaker than ourselves. That gets us in trouble from time to time by putting us on the defensive in the beginning of some problems. When we wake up and decide to fight, there is no power on earth that can stop us. We need to wake up to the menace that is the Obama administration. We need to stop this administration from causing further damage to this country. Then, if we still are allowed to vote in 2010, we should vote all the Democrats and liberals out of office. That would give us a chance to reclaim the ground we have given up to this point. I know that we can do it. We have succeeded against worse odds in the past. We can succeed today. All we have to have is the will to win and the attitude that we will not be stopped. I know we can do it.

In the last week, Barack Obama and his henchmen have declared war against Fox News. Over the weekend, David Axelrod said that Fox News was not a “real” news organization and that other “real” news organizations should not emulate their model. I was told long ago, before the internet, that you should not pick fights with someone who uses ink by the barrel. I think the same would be said for someone who broadcasts 24 hours a day.

The Obama administration is remarkably thin skinned. If they are criticized or questioned in any way, they lash out and try to destroy the person or organization responsible. Since Glenn Beck has been a tremendous thorn in the side of Obama for some time, they are lashing out at Fox News. Since they cannot kill the person producing the pain, they would rather destroy the company he works for. I guess they figure that if they make it hot enough for Fox News, they will fire Glenn Beck to satisfy the White House and get them to back off. I do not think that the White House would back off if Fox News would fire Glenn Beck. I think they would just get bolder and start attacking others as well. That means Fox News will have to fight this one to the end. During the dust-up, the one person that cannot be replaced is Glenn Beck. If he goes, the White House wins. If he stays and continues to ask his questions, the White House loses. Right now it is a game of chicken; we get to see who blinks.

The person that announced the beginning salvo in this war against Fox News was the person in charge of communications in the White House. She had said in a commencement speech to high school students that her two most admired people were: Mother Theresa and Chairman Mao Tse Tung. I have no problem with Mother Theresa and I doubt that anyone else in the world would have a problem with her in the list of most admired people. Including Mother Theresa on a list of most admired people would show the sophisticated taste needed to lead any agency or group. The other name, Mao Tse Tung, gives one a chance to stand back and question that person’s judgment. Mao was responsible for killing approximately 70 million Chinese under his rule. He killed more people than any other leader in the entire 20^th century. Having a mass murderer on your list of most admired people is definitely a character flaw on your part. Anyone with the character flaw to have Chairman Mao on their most admired list is definitely having some problems.

When questioned about the talk and her inclusion of Mao and Mother Theresa, she said that she was just telling a joke. I heard the tape of the commencement address on TV and radio. It did not sound like a joke to me. It sounded like she was serious. Glenn Beck had a parent that was at the commencement address. The parent said that the comment was definitely not a joke.

 We do not need a communications director in the White House that thinks that Chairman Mao Tse Tug is someone to be admired. Chairman Mao is someone that should be despised. Mao does not have anything to offer that would make Americana better people. In fact, he does not have anything to offer that would make anyone a better person. Anyone that would follow Mao’s teachings would be a worse person after employing the policies and procedures that Mao set down. Someone you admire should make you a better person, not a worse person.

If you asked me to list the top couple of people I admire, I would list, Joseph Smith and Ezra Taft Benson (if I could include prophets) or George Washington and Ronald Reagan (If I could only include political types). Any one of those four would make you a better person, if you tried to live your life like that person. I would like to think that a person following either pair would be substantially the same person. Following Mother Theresa and Chairman Mao would make you a definitely poorer person to be around. I am glad that I live in America and can still say things like that last comment. Obama’s people are making it increasingly more expensive to say things they disagree with. If Obama has his way, these kinds of comments will be outlawed in the future.

Our local Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, is under fire for enforcing the law. Democrats have been after Joe Arpaio for years for enforcing the law. The Democrats want some laws enforced and some laws ignored. Joe Arpaio thinks differently. He believes that the law is the law. If you break the law, you go to jail.

The law that has the Democrats up in arms this time is the immigration law. While George W. Bush was President, the Immigration Service (ICE) gave the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department the authority to arrest people who come into this country illegally. The Sheriff’s office has been conducting raids throughout the Phoenix area to arrest illegal aliens. These raids have been successful. The number of illegal aliens in the area has gone way down. Or at least they are less noticeable. The Democrats are crying racism. There is no racism involved. If the person is here illegally, they get arrested. If they are not here illegally they do not get arrested. It is as simple as that. The FBI has conducted numerous investigations at the request of Democrats and has not found one case where they acted out of racism.

Yesterday on the Glenn Beck show on TV, Glenn Beck talked about illegal immigration and what it means for the country. He said that the illegal alien is the equivalent of the slave at the time the Constitution was written. From the argument that Glenn made, I can see the connection between the two. Now, they are not slaves in that the people own them, but they are slaves in that they do not have the rights of a citizen.

Glenn made the point that there are people that do not want them to be assimilated into society. Just like slaves were not assimilated into early American society, illegal aliens are not encouraged to assimilate into American life today. The people that want these illegal aliens to be here have their individual reasons, always personal. But, they do have some common things they desire. These desires are being acted out by the unions and the Democrat party. Just like the Democrat party was the party of slaves back in the time that parties started until 1865, they are the party of slaves today. They say they are looking out for the rights of the illegal aliens, but they never ever give them the chance to get those rights. That is why they are complaining about Joe Arpaio. He is shaking the apple cart and the Democrats do not like it one bit. If he shakes hard enough, he just might turn it over. That the Democrats will never allow.

As an aside, the blacks always complain about only being counted as 3/5ths of a person in the census until after the Civil War. They look at it as if they were being discriminated against. The reason they were counted as 3/5ths is that the Northern representatives wanted to count them as zero as they had no rights. The Southern representatives wanted to count them as a whole person. If they were counted as a whole person, the south would have had far more representatives than they had with 3/5ths. It delayed the abolition of slavery for a long time. Had they been counted as zero they would have eliminated slavery much sooner. Blacks are not told this part of the story, because then they would not have the victim card to play. That is why the Democrats want all illegal aliens counted in the 2010. If all illegal aliens are counted in the 2010 census, the Democrats will be over-represented in Congress. That will delay the inevitable conflict over illegal aliens.

Joe Arpaio is one of those on the front lines of the battle against slavery. It is not called slavery today, but it should be. Joe Arpaio is providing the citizens of Maricopa County with the valuable service that the law requires. He is not backing down, even though the Democrats at all levels of government are now after him. I wish him well in his fight against slavery. I support him in this fight. If I was younger, I would take up my gun and join the Sheriff’s Reserve. I am too old and in much too poor health to do that. All I can give is moral support to those that are on the front lines. Keep up the good fight, Joe!

Today, I finished reading “The 5000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen. While I knew a lot of that information on an instinctive level, it was great to have it all put out on paper for me to digest. What emerged from the pages of the book was the amazing insight the Founding Fathers had on human failings. They understood what would work in the long run and what would not. They told us what to guard against and how to manage this new invention. It was not a perfect invention, but it was real close.

When I have heard liberals talk about a living Constitution, I have always instinctively known that the statement was wrong. I knew the Constitution worked for any day. I knew that the only reason that liberals wanted the Constitution to be “living” is so they could change it without following the guidelines put in place to change it. The book gives me ammunition in discussions on why the Constitution is not a “living” document, but one that can stand the change in time and technology. It was written to manage human behavior. That has not changed in at least 5000 years.

I see the need to return to the use of the Constitution as our guiding light through these stormy seas. We have wandered away from the Constitution and need to get back on board. One suggestion made in the book that I had disagreed with in the past was to have Senators elected by State Legislatures again. I had always been a bit of a populist and thought that direct election of Senators gave the people the best way to have their say on what goes on in Washington. I had missed the connection between the states and the Senators that existed before the passage of the amendment electing Senators by direct vote. That essentially made the Senate the same as the House of Representatives. The different election pattern gave it a different feel, but since the people directly elected both, the Senators were not looking out for the States. This has led to an erosion of States Rights.

If Senators were elected by the legislatures of the states, they would be acting quite differently in this Obamacare debate. They would see it for what it is, a power grab by the federal government. Since the Senators would be looking out for the states, they would defeat it in a second. They are only considering it now, because they consider themselves to be federal agents instead of state agents. The Founding Fathers set the Senate up as agents of the State Governments. That way the people and the States each had representation in the legislative branch of government. Only things that were in the best interests of both parties would normally pass the House and Senate. Now, the state is ignored in this process. That makes the federal government take too much power.

Electing the Senators by the legislatures would eliminate the worst of the Senators. A bad Senator would not last. If they were not looking out for their state, the state would remove them from office. Senators also would not have to accumulate large war chests to run for office. This would remove large amounts of money from politics. That is always a goal of the left. Senators could be the true statesmen that the Founding Fathers envisioned. They would not have to spend most of their time raising funds and running for office.

Getting back to the original intent of the Founding Fathers would be great for the country. Getting out of debt and staying there would give us financial stability. Knowing what the laws are from time to time would enable investment and innovation. There are lots of positives and almost no negatives to go back to the original intent of the Founders. We obviously could not do that overnight. It would take time to change what we have into what we should have. The change would be like starting a car from a slow start. As we approached the goal of the Founders vision, the faster our society would go.

Right now, we are in danger of becoming the former United States of America. With the debt that our country has and the speed that Obama is printing new money, we are in danger of losing control of the dollar. That would mean hyperinflation. Zimbabwe had hyperinflation a while back. It basically destroyed the country. The money was worthless. There were no investments. Everyone was poor. The Weimar Republic in Germany had hyperinflation and Adolf Hitler emerged from the ruin. We have to stop hyperinflation before it starts, if it is still possible. If we cannot stop it, America as we knew it will cease to exist because our money will be worthless. Something different would emerge after the hyperinflation. An economist on the Glenn Beck show said that hyperinflation is friendly to governments as it allows it to wipe out debt with worthless money. The hyperinflation is horrible for the people, but the government is stronger than ever. We do not want that scenario.

Will Munsil wrote an article for the ASU newspaper. In the article, he laments that some of the conservative voices are not giving the conservative movement a good name. He has a lot of good things to say about Rush Limbaugh. But, he dismisses Glenn Beck, Orly Taitz, Michael Savage and the “birthers” as giving the movement a bad name.

What Mr. Munsil does not realize is that each “voice” in the movement has its place. Orly Taitz and the birthers have their place. While it is not necessarily the face that establishment conservatives would like to put before the world, they are a viable force. Establishment type conservatives generally tend to be a little more liberal than the people that support Orly Taitz and the birthers. To people more conservative than Mr. Munsil, Orly Taitz and the birthers are pursuing something they feel passionately about. Whether it will ever bear any fruit is another matter and not even the point. The birthers build a pretty convincing case based on evidence that is available to the public that there is something to their story. Let them pursue this goal and stay out of their way. If they are right, the evidence will build up and say so. If they are wrong, the evidence will eventually lead everyone to that conclusion.

Glenn Beck does not have the same function in the conservative movement that Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Prager or Michael Savage have. Limbaugh, Prager and Savage discuss the fine points of conservative orthodoxy. Glenn Beck is not in that category. Glenn Beck’s job in the grand pantheon is to be the “Town Crier”. In early America, there were people that went around the towns that gave the headlines of the news. They were known as the Town Criers. Their job was to discover news and report it, not discuss points of doctrine. I am not saying that Glenn never discusses doctrine, just that his role is more of the Town Crier than intellectual. Glenn Beck has been warning America about things that are happening and are about to happen. He does that very well. If you think that he is trying to be Rush Limbaugh or Dennis Prager, you would say he is giving us a bad name. If you understand his role, you will embrace that role and wish we had others that did just that.

Michael Savage performs the same role as Rush Limbaugh and Dennis Prager. If you listen to all three, you would be struck by how similar their messages are. Their approaches are entirely different as are all three individuals. Dennis Prager holds an intellectual discussion with you on the radio. He appeals to your intellect. Rush Limbaugh is the showman. He entertains while teaching. Michael Savage just tells you like it is. You may not like what he says, but you have to realize that what he says is true. Michael Savage does have the problem that he sometimes comes across as too negative. When I listen to Michael Savage, sometimes I have to turn him off because he is too much for me to take. That never happens with Rush because Rush is funny and makes sure you have a good time.

Will Munsil is correct in that we have to wonder about the face that we put forward. But, before we criticize we have to realize the roles each commentator plays. Why? Because if you do not understand why the radio personality says what he/she says, you miss the entire point. The why is just as important as the what.

I do commend Will Munsil on his insight. Any time you write an article and take a stand you will start to take arrows from all those that have a problem with whatever it is that you say. Liberal Republicans want their candidates to be politically correct, so they do not offend Democrats. Just being physically present is enough to offend Democrats on some issues. In other words, if you spend your life trying not to offend Democrats you will end up being a nothing.

The latest outrage on the Obamacare debate is the requirement that everyone have Obamacare insurance. If you do not have Obamacare insurance you can be fined (taxed) $1900. If you do not pay the fine you can be charged with a misdemeanor and fined (taxed again) $25,000 or go to jail. Since Obamacare insurance is undoubtedly going to be more than the $1900 tax, you should not get Obamacare insurance. When they come after you, pay the $1900 fine (tax). But, do not purchase Obamacare insurance. That way you only pay a $1900 tax per year for no insurance instead of $4000 for insurance. But, always comply and pay the initial $1900 fine (tax) or you could be charged with a crime. You do not want that to go on your record, mainly because the next fine is really stiff and jail is no fun.

I am being sarcastic in the preceding paragraph. They would undoubtedly have some provision that would require compliance upon paying the $1900 fine (tax).  The Republicans almost killed the requirement in committee, but Olympia Snowe (RINO – ME) came to the rescue and voted with the Democrats. You can always count on Olympia Snowe to come in and stab you in the back when you think you have a hard fought victory in the bag.

In this Obamacare debate, we are not starting at the right place. The debate always starts with the supposed agreement that we must “fix” our damaged healthcare system. We never start where we should start. That is: Should we “fix” the healthcare system at all? After all, we have the best healthcare system in the world. Thousands of people come here from socialist countries to get healthcare that is unavailable in their countries.

Everyone talks about how expensive healthcare is in this country. That is true that healthcare costs are out of control. But, even so, our healthcare costs are less than in any socialized medicine country and we get better medical care for that reduced cost. If you want the truth, the reason our healthcare costs are increasing as fast as they are is the government is too involved in the system. The fastest way to reduce our healthcare costs would be to reduce the government’s involvement in healthcare. Big government types would hate to see that last statement. They like socialized medicine as it gives government total control over the lives of every citizen in the country. Removing government from healthcare would promote freedom and individual responsibility. That is something a statist would hate to have happen. A statist wants a nanny state governing our lives from cradle to grave.

The other night, I was talking to some students before class. I made the statement that in general, less government is better than more government. In reading the “5000 year miracle” by Cleon Skousen, he said that the Founders were trying to find a balance between no government and total government. We have moved the ball far toward total government. We need to get the ball back toward the center of the chart. That means removing government involvement from a whole host of things. Ronald Reagan said it best when he said, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.”

In looking at everything proposed by the Democrats and the Obama administration, their solution to every problem is to inject more government into a government caused problem. That will not solve anything. It will cause the problem to get worse. If government caused the problem in the first place, more government will not solve the problem. Less government will solve a problem of too much government involvement.

Glenn Beck said the other day that the older he gets the more Libertarian he gets. I feel the same way. I started out as a Democrat and became more conservative. So I became a Republican and a conservative. Now, I wonder about the big government Republicans that have so much power in the party. We need small government Republicans to lead the party. Then we can have the revolution that is long overdue in this country.

Barack Obama has a huge thorn in his side. That thorn is Glenn Beck. Robert Ringer writes about this at World Net Daily. Robert Ringer believes that Glenn Beck has the power to take down Barack Obama by the 2012 elections. That remains to be seen.

We do know that Barack Obama and his minions have thin skins. You cannot criticize them at all without getting threatening calls, emails or other communications. Right now, the Obama team has their noses out of joint about Fox News. During the media blitz over the last weekend, they “punished” Fox News by not giving them access to Barack Obama. Big whoop, their programs made money while the other stations lost money carrying the President.

At some time, Barack Obama and his team will have to address the problem that is Glenn Beck. During the election they got into a tit for tat with the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. That went on until the Obama team convinced Barack that it was beneath him to trade barbs with the Vice-Presidential candidate. As I remember it, she was cleaning his clock when he cut it off.  Glenn Beck is not a problem that Obama will be able to ignore. Glenn has a radio show where he talks for 15 hours a week and he has a TV show where he talks for an additional 5 hours. The tactics employed by the White House to date have driven many people to wonder who this Glenn Beck guy is, anyway. As a result, his numbers are climbing through the roof. His TV show is the number one TV news show on cable TV. The top 10 are essentially all at Fox News.

Robert Ringer said that Obama would most likely give in and give an interview to Fox News. He then speculated on who would get the interview. He figures that O’Reilly is the most likely candidate to snag the interview. That is a possibility, but Glenn Beck is still there. Glenn Beck will still have to be dealt with. Obama will have to go into the Lion’s Den at some point and talk to Glenn Beck. The problem is that Glenn Beck is not like all the other TV and Radio hosts. All the others are comfortable with their lifestyle and would not be likely to give it all up if the chips were on the line. Beck has stated that he would not be afraid of being poor again. He has been poor before and would be willing to be poor again, if it got the truth to the American people.

Glenn Beck is a personification of the Refounders that he is talking about. The original Founding Fathers pledged everything, including their own lives to secure the freedoms this country had. Glenn has taken those ideals to heart and would be willing to make a similar sacrifice if it meant the rebirth of the United States. That means he would be difficult to defeat. Anyone who has the integrity and honor to have that stand is unlikely to be moved by half truths. If Obama meets Beck, Obama will have to give the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Beck will cut through the BS that is Obama’s stock in trade. Since Obama does not want the whole truth to get out, he cannot afford to meet Beck on the current terms. Obama’s only hope in the contest with Glenn Beck would be to wait for a favorable time. In my opinion, that favorable time period Obama needed to have passed a few months ago.

I am a relative newcomer to Glenn Beck. I work when his TV show and radio show are on. I was introduced to the Glenn Beck show by a friend. I access Glenn Beck on the Fox News website. I do not get all of his show, but I do get most of it. I wish I could get more, but am glad for what I do get. I rarely get to hear the radio show. I rarely am off during his radio show. It also comes on an FM station. I only listen to FM on the third Thursday of each week. I find Glenn Beck to be funny and right to the point. If Obama ever met with Glenn Beck, Obama would be rolled in the first five minutes. Glenn can pull jokes out of thin air and at the drop of a hat. Obama has to have jokes pulled from him with pliers. Obama also has to have carefully laid plans for the jokes. In a situation like that, there is no way Obama could even be expected to hold do well against Beck. Reagan could give as much as he got. Clinton might be able to pull off one of his empathy sessions. The two Bush Presidents would not do well against Beck. The reason is that Beck is fast on his feet and the two Bush Presidents are slow. Either Bush would do much better than Obama because either Bush is much more nimble.

  Obama will have to take care of Beck to still be President on January 21, 2013. I do not see it happening under the circumstances as they exist today. In politics, a day is a long time and a month is an eternity. Circumstances could change between now and Election Day 2012. The longer Obama waits for Election Day 2012, the higher the stakes for him. Beck’s stakes remain the same regardless of the time frame involved.

Our President has raised or lowered (depending on your point of view) denigrating America to the world to an art form. His latest was to the United Nations. He must think that it is cute to denigrate America in front of people that spend their time tearing down all that America stands for. As for me, it grates on my nerves to have any American, especially our President, denigrate American in front of foreigners.

My attitude is this: in a political argument within the United States anything goes. That means that you can say whatever you want about America and I will defend to the death your right to say it, no matter how wrong you are. But, in a situation where foreigners are involved, all bets are off. There are protocols to be met and standards to uphold. The first among those is that to foreigners or on foreign soil, you do not speak ill of the United States. I know that with the 24 hour news cycle anything said by a President is known all around the world within seconds. But, if it is a domestic political contest, I still stand by the rule that you can say whatever you want. I am very 19^th century about that sort of thing.

What grates about denigrating the United States to the United Nations is that it plays into the hands of the communist dictators like Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez. They say that kind of thing all the time. Nobody believes them because they can see for themselves that it is not true. But, when an American President says the same thing, it lends credence to the words of the lying dictators.

One other thing that makes absolutely no sense to me is the situation in Honduras. They had a President who wanted to be a dictator like Hugo Chavez. The legislature, courts and military said that would not happen and threw him out. The legislature, courts and military followed the Honduran Constitution in throwing out the dictator. The communist dictators in the hemisphere protested the ouster of Zelaya and called it a coup. Barack Obama picked up the cry from the communist dictators and declared the constitutionally legal ouster of Zelaya to be a coup. This is crazy. We are aligned with the communist dictators and against the cause of freedom. It should be exactly the opposite of that situation. We have now forced Zelaya back into the country. He is being housed at the Brazilian Embassy until things can be worked out. Even the communist leaning Brazilians know that Zelaya is a thug and are giving Zelaya the cold shoulder. I am just afraid that we will force Honduras to throw out their Constitution and take a communist dictator.

Glenn Beck has been having a series of shows on the people that surround Barack Obama. Since we do not know much about Obama, the only way to know much about him is to know who he associates with. Most of the people that are in his inner circle have some ties directly or indirectly to communism or Marxism. In my mind, those are two sides of the same coin. Since that is the inner core of people working around Obama, can’t we make the jump and say that Obama leans heavily toward the Marxist philosophy. Looking at what Obama is saying and doing would also lead one to believe that Obama is at least leaning heavily toward the Marxist philosophy. My opinion is that he is a Marxist. But that is my opinion, not necessarily a true fact.

As Glenn Beck pointed out on his show yesterday, Barack Obama has all the parts set up to fundamentally change America, if we do not find out what he is doing. Unfortunately for Obama, we have started to figure out what he is doing. Because we are starting to figure out what he is doing, we are starting to fight back against the onslaught of socialist programs. Because of that push back by the American people, we just may regain the America that we had for over 200 years. Even catching it this early, we gave up a lot of ground. That will have to be reclaimed to get America back. The conservative American has awakened. The time for the conservative American to take back this country is coming in November 2010. Then, it will take a lot of hard slogging to get America back on the right track. We would have to rid ourselves of all these socialist programs, one at a time. That will take time and will involve a lot of yelling and stamping of feet. It will be worth it in the end, but hard to take at the time. I hope to be around to see America back in the saddle as the greatest nation on the face of the earth. That is where she belongs and where she should stay. Obama is wrong to apologize for America.

Sorry about the lack of posts this week. On Monday, I had an emergency to take care of. By the time I was finished, it was 9 pm and I was exhausted. On Tuesday, I had to make up for everything I did not do on Monday. Today, I started reading the book Glenn Beck recommends, “The 5000 year Miracle” by Cleon Skousen. Just getting through the introductory material took me my full exercise period. I was really struck with the force of the arguments in the introductory material. I can hardly wait to get into the body of the book. I will probably be posting comments about the book over the next week or two.

Over the weekend, Barack Obama hit all the Government run media. He got real hardball questions like what he thought about the White Sox baseball team’s chances in the American League pennant race. That was really important to the future of the United States to know that bit of information. Had the other questions been weighty, that question would not be out of place. Since the others were not as hard hitting as that one, that one was out of place.

The Obama team thought they were punishing the Fox News Corporation by not putting Barack Obama on Fox News. That increased the viewership of Fox News during those times. That was some punishment. The Obama team is extremely thin skinned. If any TV or radio personality says one thing that might be interpreted as not praising the President, they come unglued and banish that host to the nether world. They call the host and complain. They call the station and complain. They withhold direct comments from Barack Obama as punishment for the misdeed. This group cannot stand to be criticized at all. Where are they from? This is America. Since the time of the Founding Fathers, politicians have been criticized by the press and other politicians. Some of the names have been much worse than those thrown at Barack Obama. Should anyone take these names seriously? No, they are just part of American politics. The Obama team thinks that the names are important and seek to stifle all name calling by anyone, unless it is considered positive.

The Obama team seems to think that our allies and the political opposition in the United States are the enemy. The people that have said that they want to see America destroyed are just “misunderstood”. The misunderstood declared enemies of the United States can be talked to and you can come to some agreement with them. With the political opposition in the US or our allies, they have to be destroyed or made to bow to King Barack I.

What the Obama team seems to not understand is that we have a Republic. When you have a Republic, the leader is a President, not a King. You can criticize a President all you want without fear of reprisal. You cannot criticize a King without fear of reprisal. The Obama team punishes those who do not give the proper respect to Barack Obama. In my book, you have to earn respect. Obama has done nothing to earn my respect. He has done a lot to lose my respect, but none to gain it. Therefore, I will not bow to King Barack I. I will treat him as Mr. President. Just like George Washington wanted it in 1791. It has been that way from 1791-2009. It should remain that way from 1791-51791. In other words, it should remain that way as long as the United States remains a Republic. I will do everything I can to help her remain a Republic as long as I live. If Obamacare passes, that won’t be too much longer. If we defeat Obamacare, I plan on being a thorn from now until Election Day 2012.

Remember back to the beginning of the Obama administration where they had program after program coming at you from all directions? The people that work at ACORN have to be feeling that same way this week. Since the original documentary came out about the politician and the prostitute in Baltimore, they have had almost one revelation a day. Their original denial said that the people making the documentary tried in New York and California and failed, among others. That statement is at least 40% wrong, since 2 out of 5 of the places they mentioned as turning away the couple actually helped the couple.

As gratifying as it is to see ACORN get their just rewards, it puts Obamacare in a different light. We need to focus on killing off all the various incantations of Obamacare. This ACORN mess is a distraction from that major task. Max Baucus came out with a consensus bill yesterday and there was a consensus of politicians rejecting his bill. Democrats and Republicans have declared it stillborn. Since it was introduced, it has a chance of passing. It very well could be a compromise position for Obamacare, if all others fail. That is not likely, but anything is a possibility at this point.

The ACORN situation has clarified their position with Americans. We always had a suspicion that ACORN was corrupt, but did not have any facts to back it up. Now we have the facts that show that at least the ACORN offices in San Diego and San Bernardino, CA, Baltimore, MD, Washington, D.C. and New York City, NY are corrupt. Since those are the only ones we know about, that is a pretty bad percentage for ACORN. ACORN insists that these incidents are being taken out of context and that the tapes were doctored. There are unedited tapes available that the public can see and the people that have looked can find no evidence of any editing errors. As evidence that the tapes are most likely true, all of the ACORN employees on the tapes have been fired by ACORN. If the tapes were doctored, they would not have fired the employees. There is also a voter fraud case in Florida where ACORN has fired 13 people.

The brother of the President of ACORN is the President of SEIU. What has riled people up so much in the Townhall Meetings with their Congressional Delegation is that SEIU seems to show up in numbers to strong arm people at these meetings. Those are the same kinds of tactics used by ACORN in vote fraud cases. In looking at pictures of them on the Glenn Beck show, they do look like Bond villains. Glenn suggested that connection and I have to agree with his assessment. Of course, it could be the photographs that were selected to put on the blackboard the Glenn uses on his program. Selecting photographs is an art form. If you select the right photograph, you can make anyone look like an angel or a devil or anything in between.

Officially, the Census Bureau has cut their ties with ACORN. Since ACORN is just an umbrella organization with hundreds of tentacles, it remains to be seen if that cut is real or imagined. The Senate has cut some funding from ACORN. If these cuts spread wider, ACORN could be in danger of collapsing. It is a creation of some arcane federal laws and some innovative leadership. It receives most of its funding from federal sources. If the federal government truly cut all ties and funds from ACORN, it just might have to cease doing business.

We all seem to forget that Barack Obama was a trainer for ACORN while he was a community organizer in Chicago. Obama has close ties to ACORN. It remains to be seen what will happen if the scandal grows. It could easily infect Democrat politicians all around the country. It shouldn’t get Republicans as ACORN is a Marxist organization and Marxist organizations are almost exclusively Democrat. Things are not looking good for the Democrats to control Congress after the 2010 elections. That is good for America.

Glenn Beck has been talking about corruption in Washington for some time. The past few days he has been talking about finding the “Refounders”. The Refounders are based on the fact that 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence and changed the world. We have strayed far from the ideal that those men envisioned for America. The Refounders would be 56 politicians that would work for the good of America without regard to party. They would identify and remove corruption within their own parties, first.

The idea is a good one. But, I do not see many politicians taking him up on his proposition. There are too many “goodies” for staying on the plantation and not enough for straying off. Many a good person has gone to Washington with the idea that they are going to be the Jimmy Stewart character in “Mr. Smith goes to Washington”. They usually end up being caught up in the corruption and never amount to anything important. The reason that happens is that there are entrenched special interests that like things as they are. They do not want to go back to the era of personal responsibility and small government. That would mean that they would have to compete on an even playing field. That is something most of them have not done for many decades.

There are some good politicians in Washington right now. My Congressman, Jeff Flake is one of them. He has been fighting against the special interests since he got to Washington. The special interests have effectively kept him from leadership positions that he truly deserves. He has done some things that have made me question whether he is being “turned”, but overall he is one of the very best. He is probably the most consistently good Congressman in the House of Representatives. If he is not the best, he is one of the half dozen best.

In looking at my two Senators, one is considered an excellent Senator, Jon Kyl and one is considered a tool of special interest, John McCain. Jon Kyl is an excellent Senator and would have to be in the top half dozen in the Senate. John McCain can be counted on to be with you when it is obvious you have won and not with you when the chips are down. McCain likes the title of Maverick. That would be a good title if it meant that you were always on the side of what is best for America. That has not been John McCain’s track record. His record is that he is always on the side that will give him the best press. He rarely takes an unpopular stand. He cannot be counted on to defend the ship to the last man, if that is what is needed to stop something that will harm America.

I wish Glenn Beck well in finding his 56 Refounders. Those he does find will go down in history like the 56 original Founders have gone down in history. Unfortunately, we do not seem to have enough men and women with backbones to stand up to tyranny and corruption. I hope that I am wrong on this one. I hope that Glenn gets 112 Refounders. If he gets even one Refounder, the character of Congress could drastically change. A little truth goes a long way. One person telling the truth and digging up skeletons would do wonders for the character of those that serve in Congress. If Glenn gets one Refounder from each party, heads will roll and we just might get our country back. If he only gets one, especially if that one is a Republican, then not that much will happen except the Republicans will be painted with the corruption brush. I think a minimum of two, one from each party, would be required to have any real impact on Congress.

I agree with Glenn Beck that Congress should not pass any laws until it cleans itself of the rampant institutional corruption. With Democrats in charge, that is unlikely to happen. Good thought, almost impossible to implement. The best we can hope for is that the conscience of a few Senators and Congressmen are pricked and decide to come clean on what is going on. Then, heads would roll and we would start to see real action. We need to keep up the pressure and get them to examine their own conscience to see if they want to stand up and be counted part of the solution or continue to be part of the problem.